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What do Ada Wolfe, Alice Hugy, Clara Mairs, Frances Cranmer Greenman and Josephine Lutz Rollins have in common? They are women. They are Minnesotans. They lived between 1876 and 1989. They are among Minnesota’s first generation of women artists. Continue Reading
This play both requires and rewards careful, thoughtful viewing. As the curtain of The Home Place goes up, the audience is immediately drawn into the courtyard of the big Victorian house that is home to Christopher Gore and his son David. A peat gravel path leads from a warm living room to a cool lawn bordered by shrubbery and buckthorns, and a flower-filled garden. Over the course of the evening, the Gores, their visiting cousin Richard, their servants Sally and Margaret and visiting neighbors reveal a complex array of emotions and concerns from unrequited love to political awareness to family love and disappointment. The Home Place runs through November 25 at the Guthrie. Continue Reading
Mychael Wright, the owner of Golden Thyme Coffee Shop, who is the “father of the fest” has described JazzFest as “the biggest backyard party in St. Paul.”
“It [the 6th Annual Selby Avenue JazzFest] should really be a fantastic day,” said Selby Area CDC’s project manager Sara Reller. The JazzFest will be held on Saturday, September 8 from noon to 8pm at the corner of Selby and Milton in St. Paul. Dick and Jane’s Big Brass Band will kick the day off, by playing music from a bus driving along Selby Avenue. Continue Reading
The Minneapolis Public Schools began the new school year with a resounding bang at the fourth annual Back to School Rally August 30 on Boom Island. “We Are Family,” was the theme of the event, which Catherine Jordan, Executive Director of Achieve Minneapolis, reminded the crowd gathered in the park. “We [the Minneapolis Public Schools] want everyone to be successful. Every child can learn. Every child is smart. Continue Reading
The distinctive voice of St. Paul’s own Khary Jackson, aka ‘6 is 9’, won him sixth place in the individual division of the National Poetry Slam held in Austin, Texas on August 7-11. This was Khary’s first time competing at the national level against over 200 other contestants. “I love performance poetry,” said Khary. “I like having the forum to share ideas with people who are interested in being challenged.”
Slam poetry is steadily growing in popularity in the Twin Cities. Continue Reading
Stacia Rice first won acclaim for her acting as a toddler, when she performed air guitar at her older sister’s house party. Twin Cities native has taken that love into the leading role in the Guthrie Theater’s Jane Eyre, a tale of romance and suspense opening September 8 at the Guthrie. “I am deeply honored to have the title role at the Guthrie. I am also incredibly honored to play a character as deep and rich as Jane Eyre,” said Rice. Rice’s first acting role was at age 12 in the Children’s Theater Company’s production of Continue Reading
Concordia is known for its language camps in Minnesota–but it also has an English language camp in China. At a two-week summer day camp in Shanghai, China, Minnesota’s Concordia College shares a slice of American life with 32 Chinese students ages 7-14. Under the moniker of Hometown China, students are immersed in English language learning and exposure to American culture. After the Shanghai camp ends on July 27, Concordia’s five language teachers and a businessperson move to Beijing and run a similar camp there in August. Jennifer Osteen, Dean at Hometown China, describes her experience as a roller coaster – highs from the exuberance of the students and lows from the challenges of living in an unfamiliar city. Continue Reading
SHAOXING, CHINA —Travel guides caution foreigners to be wary of pickpockets while traveling in China. Lonely Planet, for example, writes in its China book, “Pickpocketting is the most common form of theft and the one you need to carefully guard against.” Despite this knowledge, as well as advice from my Chinese friends, I was apparently unprepared for the reality and was a recent unfortunate pickpocket victim.
Since I have been in China, I am frequently asked a range of questions pertaining to America’s culture, about myself and my life in America. One peculiar question which I have been asked on more than one occasion is, “Do you have a gun?” In the couple of weeks after the movie Crash was awarded the Oscar for Best Picture of 2005, the question, however, was, “Do all Black people in America have guns?”